Mr. Svenson was honored on August 1st, 2014, by the Martial Arts Hall of Fame at its annual banquet at which he also officiated as the Master of Ceremonies.

He also received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Action On Film Awards Dinner, on August 30th, 2014, where a retrospective of his acting, writing, producing and directing work was shown to over 1,000 invited guests.

He is in preproduction as the writer, lead producer and director of the motion picture "Don't Call Me Sir!” that is based on a true life story. In 1947, Brooklyn-born Rena “Rusty” Glickman, then 12, Jewish and safe except for the occasional anti-Semitic incidents, learns about the millions who disappeared into the cruel and murderous fog we now know as the Holocaust. Although she was too young to verbalize it, she decided that she was not going to let that happen to her, that ‘they’ were not going to win, that she would be better and stronger, that she was going to excel at something, at what she didn't know - until she found judo.

In 1959, and then an unwed mother, Rusty had to disguise herself as a man in order to compete in the New York State Judo Championships. She beat the reigning state champion but was stripped of the medal when she admitted she was a woman. She vowed to change how women were treated in sports and fought to get women’s judo accepted as a competitive sport for women and an Olympic event in 1984. She was the coach of that first U.S. Olympic women's judo team and was revered and honored worldwide. A mother of three, she died in 2009. Recipient of The Emperor’s Order of the Rising Sun, her ashes are interred in the tomb of the Samurai Kanokogi in Kumamoto, Japan.

Following a shared bronze in the 2012 IJF World Judo Masters Championships, he won his weight class at the 2013 USJA Winter Nationals. He has now retired from competition.

Mr. Svenson is also in preproduction with VIKING. Based on recently discovered historical facts, VIKING tells of Norsemen who in 996 fled west to avoid religious persecution, landed on Iceland where they were not welcomed, continued west to Greenland, met with Leif Eriksen, and then went onward west, finally landing in L'Anse Aux Meadows, Newfoundland where they settled and built two large soil and rock dwellings while challenged by Beothuk and MicMac Native Americans. VIKING will be filmed in Halden, Norway, Iceland, Greenland , and L'Anse Aux Meadows.

In addition to developing and producing filmed entertainment as well as branding/advertainment, Mr. Svenson’s Hollywood-based company MagicQuest is a consultant to established as well as non-established actors, writers, producers and directors.

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